Will XML eat the web?

[David Megginson]

Pavel Velikhov writes:

 > I agree, generating 20Mb XML files is bad. However it will
 > happen. If you make a lot of data available in XML by wrapping a
 > relational database for instance users/applications will be able to
 > request large XML files.

In general, this is probably the wrong place for XML -- it fits much
more nicely in the object layer than in the raw data layer of a
multi-tier application.

Of course, XML can be very useful in the raw data layer for database
import/export and persistence, but that generally will be done
directly on the server rather than through a web client.


All the best,


David

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